Scrying | Offering Bowl

Scrying is a method of
divination and takes on many
forms.
Scrying has been used for
thousands of years by
different cultures. Ancient
Egypt used scrying in their
Initiations. This included water
scrying, dream scrying,
oil
scrying, and mirror scrying.
One legend states that the
goddess Hathor carried a
shield that could reflect back
all things in their true light.
From this shield she allegedly
fashioned the first magic
mirror to "see." Ancient
Greeks and Celts practiced
scrying using beryl, crystal,
black glass, polished quartz,
water, and other transparent
or light catching bodies.

Nostradamus is believed to
have employed a small bowl
of water as a offering/scrying
tool into
which he gazed and received
images of future events.
Alchemists Edward Kelley and
John Dee employed a form of
scrying using a small crystal
ball or shewstone - a piece of
polished obsidion. The crystal
ball and wax tablets used by
Dee and Kelley are on display
at the British Museum in
London.>